World Class Acts In Town Hall and Betjeman Centre
Non-Stop Regional Musicians on FAR Stage daytime
Live Music and Dance in Town Centre Streets
And MORE!
Cornwall Folk Festival brings top local, regional, national and international artists to the North Cornwall town of Wadebridge each August Bank Holiday weekend.
We are a town-based festival, started in 1973 and last year reached our 50th outing. Wadebridge is a small town, and we use its existing spaces and venues, all of which are within easy walking distance.
From around midday on the Saturday to Monday, we run the outside FAR Stage (behind Wadebridge Wines in Eddystone Road, PL27 7AL); around nine varied acts each day from Cornwall and the Southwest, with music from the traditional to alt-folk and beyond. There’s food, and we run a bar featuring local beers, ciders and gin, plus wines and soft drinks. This space can accommodate around 300 people, and entry is £5 per day per person, or £10 for families.
From Thursday to Sunday evening, we hold a main concert in the Town Hall, The Platt, PL27 7AQ. Thursday we have a Nos Lowen dance (a Cornish ceilidh, if you will), and then three nights of double-bills. We run a bar featuring local suppliers, plus wines, but no food. These gigs are usually seated, and the seated capacity is 210 people. Tickets are £25. Half price for under 16s; free for under 5s.
Tarren | Daphne’s Flight | Lady Maisery | Reg Meuross | Richard Trethewey | Annie Baylis | True Foxes | Suthering | Detta Kenzie | James Dixon | Bagas Fellyon | Kessenyan | Prophesy Of Merlin
Annown | Barrel Seagals | Beatnik Skiffle | Blue Badgers | Bow Creek | Bradley the Busker | Bray Family Band w/ Finley Bray | Bryher’s Boys | Cataclews | City Of Truro Male Choir | David Fisher | Drecklys | Du Glas | Elliot Osborne | Fable | Figurehead | Gareth Cooper | Glen Chun | Harry Devereux | Hooligan’s Rule | Jackson’s Claret | JayCee&Bee | Joe May | Joseph Davis | Just Jazz Guitars | King’s Heathen | Kitty Puss String Band | Luther Clayton | Mark Waistell | Martha Woods | Meand’er | Nicole Tesseyman | Pensans Morris | River Blue | Seamus McKenna | Shipwrecks | Smokin’ Pilchards | Spot the Dog Bluegrass Session | Steamrocket | Steve Flanders | Stone Ryders | Stowes | Tatters | Tim Brine and Sue Franklin | Toby Webb | Tracy V | Trigg Morris | Tros an Treys | Tywardreath Morris | Wicked Lollipops
